Thread:Mixed talk/@comment-30866120-20180908134840/@comment-27493717-20180919072112

Hehe! That ASCII art reminds me of some of the oldest video games, that I played when I was very young. :')

So many fond memories! But these games were really difficult. Maybe that's why I like difficult games so much. XD

Yesterday, I installed two new features over at the new WikiFarm. One of them is LinkSuggest, that gives you the list of the articles or files when typing internal wiki links and autocompletes your entry if you confirm it.

The second one is the Theme feature. I played around with it for a bit, but unfortunately, it doesn't give you a nice little page where you can choose colors, so I had to edit the source code and a handful of png-files to change the colors.

This way, I created a custom theme based on the "dark" theme. My custom theme intends to mimic Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia's colors, but I still need to test it more, because the text in the editing boxes was still showing a white background, which greatly clashed with the dark red and purple colors. Also the links were showing as golden text on the white background and became hard to read.

At first, it also crashed the wiki server when I tried to add my new "seme" theme, so I had to replace an existing theme with it. I chose to replace the "deepsea" theme, because its layout doesn't work with the mediawiki I am using, so we get "dark" and "seme" themes to chose from instead.

When I was looking through the source code, I read that the "dark" theme has been published by a Zelda Wiki (about the well known Legend of Zelda gaming series), which is ironic, because I was playing Zelda Twilight Princess very recently and immediately recognized the Hylian Kingdom's royal colors. X'D

I also decided to check some Zelda Wikis and found out, that they now use a theme based on Link's green and golden colors (based on the main character's tunic and hair).

Then I came back and wanted to test a third feature, the poll. Unfortunately, it didn't work, because it needs mysql and I need to figure out how to create a mysql database on a Linux OS.

So, even if I wasn't able to get all three extensions to work yet, I still made some progress.

The only thing, that makes me sad, is, that LinkSuggest doesn't show you the original filename when you type a redirect, so if I type "File:Dummy.png" instead of "File:Zenki sleep Battle Raiden cutout.png", it doesn't suggest either of them. :(

Nonetheless, I am going to keep looking around and testing.